Jehad Abusalim

People do not grasp the scale of the reactionary measures Israel and its supporters are unleashing to salvage their genocidal project. Opposition to Israel in academia? Crush academia. Opposition to Israel in the streets or public discourse? Silence it. Strip away freedom of speech. Opposition to Israel in the media? Murder journalists. Arrest them. Discredit the profession entirely. Opposition to Israel in the medical field? Smear doctors and healthcare workers as liars and fabricators. Opposition to Israel through protest? Break protest movements. Restrict the right of people to gather and demonstrate. Opposition to Israel through boycott or other non-violent means? Weaponize the legal system. Make it illegal to boycott. Opposition to Israel in international courts? Undermine them. Punish them. Destroy the post–World War II system of accountability and atrocity prevention. These precedents are not about Palestinians alone. If you think this ends with Palestinians, you are wrong. What is being built is a regime of global tyranny. And everyone will pay the price for their inaction.

Israel assassinated Anas Al Sharif and his colleagues. This was a deliberate, targeted assassination carried out with the full knowledge and intention of its perpetrators. Israel killed Al Jazeera’s team on purpose to impose a blackout on Gaza City ahead of the upcoming massacre. Do not, in any shape or form, entertain claims like “we didn’t do it,” “we did it but it was a mistake,” “Hamas bombed them,” “they bombed themselves,” “we don't know who did it,” or any other such LIES. Israel assassinated Anas Al Sharif and his colleagues with premeditation and malice aforethought.

Just this week alone, with resources probably less than 1% of any media entity in the West, our team at @Institute for Palestine Studies published these reports from and about Gaza. All based on first-hand testimonies, all by excellent reporters and writers. Please help us get these words out there.

The fact that it takes a testimony or a confession from a few criminal soldiers who developed a conscience after killing too many innocent people, instead of refusing to obey orders and take part in the sadistic murder machine from the start, says so much about how the dehumanization of Palestinians works. Our people, despite starvation, hunger, thirst, and daily slaughter, go out of their way to share clips in 4K of what they endure every day. But somehow, it takes a few of these losers reaching their personal limit of how many innocents they can handle killing before anyone admits the crimes are real. Only then are our voices validated and believed. Disgusting.

"Hospitals have stopped providing meals to patients or medical staff during working hours, and naturally, there’s nothing available to buy in the first place. Israel may have succeeded in distracting public opinion and turning the image of the growing famine into one of chaos and lawlessness. The spotlight on what’s happening is no longer as strong, and the image of the famine is starting to fade into the background. If this continues for much longer, no one will mention it at all."

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This may be the first genocide where the perpetrators and their supporters openly push to annihilate and starve a people while demanding validation, acceptance, inclusion, safe spaces, and lived experience affirmation.

The most consequential event of this decade, and perhaps of this century, is one of a powerful regime, backed by the most powerful governments and states of our era, killing, destroying, and displacing hundreds of thousands, even millions, of people. This regime has deemed these people stateless and without rights for decades, and now it considers them unworthy of life and unworthy of their homeland. This is a story of the future, a story of how the privileged and those who consider only themselves worthy of rights, dignity, and access to resources will treat the rest of the world. They will do so through mechanized killing, state-of-the-art surveillance, and the use of AI and advanced technology to engage in top-down violence, sanctioned population control, and population removal. Gaza is a present-day story of a place with two million people sentenced to death and destruction. But this is not just Gaza’s story. It is the story of the future, the story of the decades to come. It is the story of how violence and genocide will define the coming decades if the precedent set in Gaza is established and passes without accountability and justice. What happens in Gaza today will shape the world of the future. Our collective failure to stop this genocide will define the world that our children and our children’s children will inhabit.

A horrific situation is unfolding in my hometown. A group of thugs attempted to intercept an aid convoy traveling north on Salah Al-Din Street. Local aid protection committees, composed of volunteers, rushed to confront the thugs and protect the aid. Upon their arrival, the volunteers were immediately bombed by Israeli forces. When residents from the neighborhood rushed to rescue the volunteers, they were also bombed. No one still knows what the fate of the volunteers, the rescuers, and the aid convoy heading north is…

Israel named its ongoing assault on Gaza “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” a name pulled straight from the Book of Judges, where Gideon leads a divinely sanctioned massacre of 120,000 people. This isn’t just poetic branding. It’s part of a long pattern where the Israeli military wraps its campaigns in religious symbolism to frame mass violence as holy war. From chariots and prophets to plagues and pillars of cloud, biblical language is used to justify modern-day genocide and aggression. This time, they even dropped leaflets over Deir el-Balah quoting a Quranic verse about Moses parting the sea, twisted into a threat saying the Israeli army is coming. The image shows the sea splitting Gaza, with homes submerged and divine vengeance on display. Israel has long named its missiles, drones, and AI systems after religious figures and stories. “David’s Sling,” “Jericho,” “Samson,” and even “Lavender” and “Gospel” are all part of a strategy to fuse war with prophecy and divine entitlement. While Western media and hypocrites like Bill Maher insist on painting Israel as secular and rational bastion of progress, its military doctrine increasingly mirrors a theocratic crusade. Criminals like Netanyahu have even invoked the biblical call to annihilate entire populations, language now cited in genocide cases at the Hague. This isn’t metaphor. It’s policy. And it’s time to stop pretending it’s anything else.

Despite immense challenges, what remains of Gaza’s schools have resumed teaching. The next time you feel “uncomfortable” on campus, remember these photos.